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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Why filter D/A output?
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:20:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.132015.8881@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov8.222911.27702@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Nov16.161335.4400@bnr.uk> <1992Nov20.080807.1@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au>
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- In article <1992Nov20.080807.1@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au> st_waldman@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au writes:
- >> You have a good point regarding filtering ... The best that I can come up with in
- >> terms of explaning why filtering is needed is that the distortion products at
- >> higher frequencies have images that 'fold' back into the audio band. Therefore
- >> filtering is required to suppress noise in the audio band.
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- >When an output signal is generated by a DAC, it looks more like a
- >stair-case type of signal. eg. for a sine wave we might get:
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- Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
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- It looks like the sine wave that went in!
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